How Did the Jones House Turn Yellow?
Sears Weatherbeater paints American history in the 70s
A Fragile Little Bird and a Giant Iron Steamship
An 1882 ad for the SS Taurus to Seacoast NH
Marketing a Jewish-owned Victorian Five-and-Dime
Alkon’s Tea Shop advertised with colorful Victorian trade cards
Three US Naval Heroes Inside a Vacuum Tube
Jones, Perry, and Farragut all had ties to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
In Search of a Shared Past We Can All Learn From
All things must pass on Daniel Street and everywhere
My Hero, James T. Fields
Kind and funny guy, a great writer, inspired editor, and publisher too
Our Portsmouth Parking Poster Parody
Sometimes, all you can do is laugh at your problems
A Snapshot of Our Earliest Photographers
They captured the 19th-century for us
The 1892 Siege of Cedar Island
Shoaler news ripped from the pages of the Boston Globe
Where Wagner Got His Bloody Rubber Boots
A strange Victorian ad leads to 5 Market Street in Portsmouth
Waging Peace in the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
A nail biting month of negotiations between Russia and Japan
My House is Not for Sale!
I wondered who was sending these weird postcards